Tag Archives: UConn at Battle 4 Atlantis

While the college basketball world (OK, a smaller sampling than it might be if this game were in late March, I grant you) will be watching Duke play Kansas tonight in a battle in Maui of two of the premier programs in the sport, another of the game’s heavyweights will be preparing for its own tropical tournament as UConn is in the Bahamas for something called the Battle 4 Atlantis.

The field is largely forgettable with the possible exception of No. 22 Florida State, who UConn could meet at some point in the islands, but it is a neutral site event that basically gives the Huskies three more tuneup games before their next set of tuneup games.

One interesting note is that by a crazy scheduling quirk, UConn could end up playing Harvard of all teams twice in the span of just a handful of days as the Huskies host the Crimson Dec. 8 in Storrs and could play them in the Bahamas.

Some quickie notes on this event:

The Huskies are 15-2 iin early season neutral tournament play since 2005, including three tropical tourney titles, two at Maui and one at the Paradise Jam.

UConn owns the nation’s longest win streak at 15 games, winning the final 11 contests of 2010-11 and opening with four wins in 2011-12. The Husky mark for consecutive wins is 23, set in 1995-96. Lookig at the schedule, barring what would be a pretty shocking upset, UConn could be up to 26 straight before back to back league games against West Virginia (home) and Notre Dame (road) in mid-January.

When the Huskies visited Maui in 2005, the program was in the midst of a nearly 50 year-long drought since capturing the title at an in-season tournament they did not host. That covered 23 straight trips to one tournament or another without bringing home the title since winning the 1956 Orange Bowl Classic in Miami.